Recent Working Papers

Authority, Coercion and Power in International Relations. Revised December 2010.

Authority, Status, and the End of the American Century. October 2010.

Organizations and the Evolution of Cooperation (with Danielle Jung). Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Sept. 1-5, 2010, Washington, DC.

Markets, Hierarchies, and Networks: An Agent-Based Organizational Ecology (with Danielle Jung). Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 28-31, 2008, Boston, MA. Revised January 2009. Revised June 2010. Technical Appendix.

America's Imperial Dilemma: Political Order v. Global Insurgency. September 2009.

Anarchy. Prepared for the IPSA Encyclopedia of Political Science. January 2009.

Relational Authority in the Modern World: Towards a Positive Theory of Legitimacy. Paper prepared for the workshop on Legitimacy in the Modern World, University of California, San Diego, December 7-8, 2006.

Building Legitimate States After Civil Wars: Order, Authority, and Institutions. Paper prepared for the workshop on Building Peace in Fragile States, University of California, San Diego, December 1-2, 2006. Revised April 27, 2007.

Democracy, Federalism, and the Size of States (with Michael J. Hiscox). Last revised April 2003.